How to branch from a head revision after accidentally deleting branch dir?

[Matt Nordhoff]

Nicholas Allen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I accidentally delete a branch directory from within a repository and
>  want to restore that branch what is the best way to do that? If I run
> "bzr heads" I can see the revision of the branch that I need to restore.
>  But bzr branch needs a branch location (which of course does not exist
> because I accidentally deleted the directory). Is there some special
> syntax I can use in the location specifier that makes it look at a
> revision in the repository instead of a directory?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick

I think the way to handle this is:

$ cd repo/some_other_branch
$ bzr branch -r revid:whatever . ../restored_branch

I guess you could use init/pull too, if you don't have any other branches.
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